Hedge Fund Activism - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 May 2016
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5 Facts about Clubs at HBS

to create one of your own. Just in the past year, the HBS Student Senate approved the Boxing & Fitness Club, CODE Club (for those looking to program), Free Enterprise Club, and the Search Fund Club. 3. Many clubs charge membership... View Details

12 Feb 2020
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Trying Out New Career Options with SIPs (Short Intensive Programs)

historical – and the ways in which these Africa-specific trends impact the opportunities and challenges in undertaking business and entrepreneurship ventures on the continent today. Drawing upon the active participation of prominent... View Details

17 Nov 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

How Activist Investors Became Respectable

online well before any regulatory filing disclosed his holdings in the company. These tactics may have been designed for drama, but the investment strategy and its scale are nothing unusual today. Activist shareholders and the hedge View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller; Financial Services; Banking

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Involvement in Faculty & Student Ventures | About

faculty members and students are responsible for understanding and complying with this policy. Faculty members and students are encouraged to seek advice from the Dean or a Dean’s designate for activities or questions not explicitly... View Details

January 2024 (Revised May 2024)
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Generation Investment Management

By: Vikram S. Gandhi, Michael Norris and David Allen

In September 2021, the sustainable investment firm Generation Investment Management (Generation) considered whether to add Schneider Electric to the focus list of companies in which it was prepared to invest. Dedicated to promoting a sustainable world through its... View Details

Keywords: Sustainable Investing; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Governance; Private Equity; Public Equity; Financial Markets; Investment Return; Investment Activism; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Institutional Investing; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Financial Services Industry; United Kingdom; England; London

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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

equity, private debt, hedge funds, and real estate, assess potential investment opportunities, and understand the skills and strategies necessary for investing in alternatives. The program was developed by leading Harvard Business School... View Details

03 Nov 2021
Blog Post

Recent Grad Reflections: From Being Cold Called to Becoming a Case Protagonist

Bessemer Venture Partners. You can imagine how surreal it was for me to return to campus for the first time since graduating less than two years ago, not just as a proud HBS alumna, but as a female case protagonist in the first-ever case on Bessemer Venture Partners’... View Details

14 Jun 2010
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact

requires greater access to education, health care, and employment resources; at the same time, you might be trying to influence public policy on issues that affect the homeless. That involves a whole set of interrelated activities that... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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Career Support - Business & Environment

careers with nonprofits focused on corporate engagement, or in the public sector. HBS MBAs have many options for making a difference at the critical intersection of environmental and business issues. BEI actively assists students in... View Details

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ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Library Visionary, Innovator, Educator I n the 1930s, investments were generally targeted for trusts, pensions, and other conservative funds rather than emerging industries. 32 The urgent military needs during World War II had fostered... View Details

03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017

January 2017 Journal of Financial Economics The Unintended Consequences of the Zero Lower Bound Policy By: Di Maggio, Marco, and Marcin Kacperczyk Abstract—We study the impact of the zero lower bound interest rate policy on the industrial organization of the U.S. money... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

06 May 2021
HBS Case

How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

Despite widespread investment in entrepreneurship in cities across America, venture capital-funded startups still tend to be founded by white men in Silicon Valley. In contrast, businesses led by women are 63 percent less likely to receive View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

01 Mar 2023
News

Step Change

had long been part of the cultural mindset. Today’s startup scene in Egypt is hopping. Venture capital funding reached $491 million in 2021, with a compounded annual growth rate of 117 percent between 2017 and 2021, according to Magnitt.... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

01 Aug 1998
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High Honors

a high-quality urban institution, to serving on the Virginia Council of Higher Education, to funding the Batten Center for Entrepreneurship at UVA's Darden School of Business. Batten's biggest challenge these days, he says, is to... View Details

01 Jun 2008
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You Only Thought You Were Republican

benefits of these cuts would go “to people at the bottom end of the economic ladder,” he assured voters. And yet, of course, CEOs — let alone hedge fund managers — now routinely pay a lower proportion of... View Details

Keywords: Andrew Tobias; national debt; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Government

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John H. McArthur | About

these outreach programs, which included opportunities to interact with students at a nearby middle school through tutoring and field trips, and a Saturday morning athletic program at the School. HBS alumni clubs and associations around the world also sponsored hundreds... View Details

11 Mar 2021
News

Leading with Heart

both sort of felt deeply and we just said, "We have to work with each other." And after that, I joined JAB Holding, which is an investment fund that owns a bunch of food retail concepts like Krispy Kreme and Panera Bread, Pret a Manger,... View Details

13 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)

IMPRESSION McDonald focused on the startups’ cultural strategies—rhetorical activities in terms of what they said and how that mapped to what they did, and symbolic activities like using labels or analogies... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Aerospace; Food & Beverage; Retail

12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

than feel limited by what seems possible. They are also clear that this is a moment for their business to be used as a tool for activism, not activism as a tool for business. Carl Ferenbach (MBA 1972) Chairman and cofounder, High Meadows... View Details

24 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach

specific results. The Board Scorecard details the tasks to be performed as part of the board's basic mission, and includes activities such as: approve and monitor funding for strategic initiatives, evaluate... View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu

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